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February 16, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Clint Mansell’s Music For Film Cuts Right To My Heart

Clint Mansell’s made some of the best music I’ve ever heard. Some of the greatest film cues and scores. And he was in the band Pop Will Eat Itself. I first really got to know his work when I watched Requiem For A Dream, a film that stays with me still. Its music, scored by […]
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September 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Mother: Film

Mother! Director: Darren Aronofsky Paramount Pictures/Protozoa Pictures Making Black Swan look like a perfect rom-com for any date-night, Darren Aronofsky here sets up a taut, psychological horror that you at first think might play out along the lines of Don’t Look Now or – as is more oft-referenced – Rosemary’s Baby. There’s touches of Polanski […]
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May 28, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1114

The Triffids, Falling Over You [Single] (1989) I can’t think of any bands that I like but do not own a thing by – but The Triffids come very close. You see, the only piece of music I own by this great Australian band – so far anyway – is this 7” single; taken from […]
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